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Source: Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)

“The origin is nameless; the origin is absolutely quiet, it is not whirring about making noise. Creation is something that is most holy, that is the most sacred thing in life, and if you have made a mess of your life, change it. Change it today, not tomorrow. If you are uncertain, find out why and be certain. If your thinking is not straight, think straight, logically, Unless all that is prepared, all that is settled, you cannot enter into this world, into the world of creation.”

“Nature, as man has always known it, he knows no more. Since he has learned to esteem signs above symbols, to suppress his emotional reactions in favor of practical ones and make use of nature instead of holding so much of it sacred, he has altered the face, if not the heart, of reality.”

Ifs Knows Men Heart Use Reality Faces Known Emotional Sacred Favors Practicals Reactions Esteem Symbols Altered Emotional Reactions

Author:Susanne Katherina Langer

“I therefore suggested that WWF should invite leaders from the major religions to meet together to discuss what - if any - responsibility they felt they had for the natural environment as a "sacred" entity.”

Ifs Should Together Felt Natural Responsibility Leader Environment Majors Sacred What If Invites Entity Natural Environment Wwf

Author:Prince Philip

“We are a covenant-making people. We make covenants at the waters of baptism. We renew those covenants each week as we worthily partake of the sacrament. We take upon ourselves the name of Christ; we promise to always remember Him and to keep His commandments. And in return He promises us that His Spirit will always be with us. We make covenants as we enter into the temple, and in return we receive the promised blessings of eternal life-if we keep those sacred covenants.”

People Ifs Remember Spirit Names Christ Water Week Return Promise Blessing Eternal Sacred Temples Commandments Sacraments Eternal Life Covenant Baptism

Author:Sheldon F. Child

“Actually, if you go back to what Marx said in The Communist Manifesto over a hundred years ago, when in talking about the constant revolutions in technology, he ended that paragraph by saying, "All that is sacred is profaned, all that is solid melts into air, and men and women are forced to face with sober senses our conditions of life and our relations with our kind." We're at that sort of turning point in human history.”

“Each year, it is necessary to respire, to take breath again, to revive ourselves at the great living sources that forever keep their eternal freshness. Where can we find them if not at the cradle of our race, on the sacred summits from where descend the Indus and the Ganges....?”

Ifs Years Race Forever Source Eternal Breaths Sacred Summit Cradle Freshness Revive

Author:Jules Michelet

“We simply thought that we would be considerably poorer in Europe if we didn't have the sacred buildings of earlier epochs. It's still possible to experience the Gothic period, not to mention the Romantic. Only nothing remains of the industrial age. So we thought that our photos would give the viewer the chance to go back to a time that is gone forever.”

Ifs Giving Stills Would Be Age Chance Gone Forever Building Periods Europe Remains Sacred Viewers Gothic

Author:Bernd Becher

“Life is sacred? Who said so? God? Hey, if you read history, you realize that God is one of the leading causes of death.”

Ifs Said Life Is Causes Realizing Sacred Hey Sanctity Of Life Leading Causes

Author:George Carlin

“Satan is willing to have us worship anything, however sacred - the Bible, the crucifix, the church - if only we do not worship God Himself.”

Ifs Church Willing Worship Sacred Satan Worship God

Book:D. L. Moody on the Ten Commandments

Source: D. L. Moody on the Ten Commandments

“If you're using technology in a way that opens out conversation in your family, with your friends, with people you care about, I'm for that. But if you're using technology to silence the conversations with the people around you, then you have to create sacred spaces in your home, the kitchen, the dining room, the car.”

People Ifs Way Home Care Space Rooms Silence Technology Car Conversation Sacred Our Family Kitchen Dining Dining Rooms Sacred Space

Author:Judy Woodruff

“If you had a personal trainer, you would probably eat him. I know that in every fat person, there's a skinny person inside, but you could have all the season's contestants of America's Next Top Model in you. I hope I get reincarnated as your feet. That way, you'd never see my face again... Oh, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have insulted you. Because in my country, cows are sacred.”

Ifs Knows Way Persons Country America Faces Next Feet Models Seasons Sacred Sorry Fats Cows I'm Sorry Skinny Trainers Insulted Contestants Top Model

Author:George Lopez

“God is not a person; God is a sacred personification of one or more deeply significant dimensions of reality. If we miss this we miss everything!”

Ifs Persons Reality Missing Sacred Significant Dimensions Personification

Author:Michael Dowd

“Sometimes all we need is only listening to an inner voice and remaining human in a very personal way. But even if it is a personal way, it's still a very valid way - maybe the most valid way. It doesn't have to be a collective experience or someone telling you what to do. The most sacred human experience can be a very personal one.”

Ifs Way Needs Humans Stills Sometimes Voice Listening Sacred Collectives Human Experience Inner Voice

Author:Laszlo Nemes

“...I am afraid that education is conceived more in terms of indoctrination by most school officials than in terms of enlightenment. My own belief is that education must be subversive if it is to be meaningful. By this I mean that it must challenge all the things we take for granted, examine all accepted assumptions, tamper with every sacred cow, and instill a desire to question and doubt. Without this the mere instruction to memorise data is empty. The attempt to enforce conventional mediocrity on the young is criminal.”

“If individuals start to walk on the path of spirit and feel a sense of the sacred connectedness, then social, economic and political problems will also begin to get resolved.”

Ifs Feels Problem Political Spirit Individual Social Walks Path Economic Sacred Connectedness

Author:Satish Kumar

“I like vinyl because it's not quite random access. You have to pick up the needle, flip the record. I do think that an 18-20 minute block of music is sacred, and I can see why it's catching on. I really don't know if it will stay, but it's such a bizarre world, I think it's possible.”

Ifs Thinking Knows World I Can Records Minutes Music Is Picks Sacred Access Block Bizarre Catching Flip Needles Vinyl Catching On

Author:John Vanderslice

“Because of these new car models there is suddenly on the streets of Delhi a new intolerance by the motorists for both the cows and the cyclists. So for the first time the sacred cow in India, which used to be such a wonderful speed-breaker, is now seen as a nuisance. For the first time, Ive seen cows being hit and hurt. These guys just go right past, and if the cow is sitting on the road, they dont care. We cant afford to have a sacred car rather than a sacred cow.”

Ifs Firsts Care Past Used Guy Hurt Wonderful Streets Car Models Sitting First Time India Sacred Don't Care Speed Used To Be Cows Intolerance Nuisance New Car Delhi Cyclists Sacred Cows

Author:Vandana Shiva

“Life sort of shrinks and you get older, I don't know if I'm going to have time to do all the things and be all the places as I want to be. Wisconsin's really sacred for me, so no matter what happens, where I end up permanently living, I'll be spending weeks and weeks at least of the year, no matter how many years I live, in the northwestern Wisconsin area.”

Ifs Knows Want Years Ends Matter Happens Week Areas No Matter What Sacred Spending Shrinks Wisconsin Northwestern

Author:Justin Vernon

“If you repeat something enough it can literally physically change the air particles around you and it can infuse the air with this sacred sound vibration, or it can change your material body, like transform your flesh to spirit. These are all beliefs within the Hare Krishna philosophy we were brought up with.”

Ifs Enough Philosophy Body Spirit Belief Sound Air Materials Sacred Flesh Repeats Particles Vibrations Krishna Hares Hare Krishna

Author:Taraka Larson

“If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own work.”

Ifs Doe I Can My Own Influence Poet Sacred Hearing Honestly

Author:Grace Cavalieri

“If we get away from the lazy and fuzzy thinking that is like a poison in our society - if we get away from all the bad television that we tend to watch - and begin to take up serious meditation and other sacred exercises, we will have a real revolution of consciousness. If that happens, the world will change by itself.”

Ifs Thinking World Real Happens Consciousness Watches Meditation Television Serious Revolution Exercise Sacred Poison Lazy Our Society Get Away Fuzzy

Author:Marianne Williamson

“The difficulty, if you're in the world - and this is for anybody - is the eventual disappointment that comes with having to meet other versions of reality. Imposed systems that ask you to compromise or sacrifice things which you consider holy or sacred.”

Ifs World Reality Asks Sacrifice Holy Difficulty Sacred Disappointment Versions Compromise

Author:Billy Corgan

“A generation ago [the Democratic Party] stood for progressive change. Now they defend every federal program as if each were sacred. They have become the most conservative force in American politics.”

Ifs Force Party Generations Program Sacred Democratic Conservative Progressive American Politics Democratic Party Progressive Change

Author:Thomas Friedman

“We've got to temper anything we say with that. On the other hand, you've got to be serious about what you do. And you've got to understand the price you pay for frivolity or just for greed - it's a very high price, especially if you're involved in this sacred material, which is about the human heart and human desire and human tragedy.”

Ifs Humans Heart Hands Desire Pay Serious Materials Involved Tragedy Sacred Greed Temper Human Heart High Prices Frivolity

Author:Leonard Cohen

“LSD should be treated as a sacred drug and receive corresponding preparation, preparation of quite a different kind than other psychotropic agents. It is one kind of thing if you have a pain-relieving substance or some euphoriant and (another to) have an agent that engages the very essence of human beings, their consciousness.”

Ifs Should Humans Kind Different Pain Human Beings Consciousness Drug Essence Sacred Treated Agents Preparation Substance Different Kinds Corresponding Lsd

Author:Albert Hofmann

“What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy.”

Ifs Want Needs Trying Mind Doe Said Life Is Evil Serious Sacred Response Critics Bother Good And Evil Fallacy Profane Reviewers Goofiness

Author:Tom Robbins

“If men were but to read the New Testament with the same tone and emphasis, with which they do other books, and were to keep out of mind the idea of its being sacred, they would be disgusted with the credulity, and the want of intellect, reason and judgment, that is apparent in it.”

Ifs Men Want Mind Book Ideas Reason Would Be Judgment Sacred Intellect Tone Testament Emphasis New Testament Credulity Disgusted

Author:Lysander Spooner

“If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.”

Ifs Humans Body Inspiring Birth Sacred Your Body Sensuality Human Body Leaves Of Grass Body Love Body Awareness Sacred Art

Author:Walt Whitman

“If we maintain the open-mindedness of children, we challenge fixed ideas and established structures, including our own. We listen to people in other denominations and religions. We don't find demons in those with whom we disagree. We don't cozy up to people who mouth our jargon. If we are open, we rarely resort to either-or: either creation or evolution, liberty or law, sacred or secular, Beethoven or Madonna. We focus on both-and, fully aware that God's truth cannot be imprisoned in a small definition.”

Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

“I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings that "except the Lord build they labor in vain that build it." I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the Builders of Babel”

“Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good any more... I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.”

Ifs Thinking World Looks Children Littles Order Speak Deserve Standing Sacred Chaos Corners Innocent Bridges Precise Power Of Words Describing Nudge Incomprehension

Book:Arcadia

Source: Arcadia

“You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.”

Ifs Men Life Heart May Beautiful Left Memories Childhood One Day Instruments Sacred Salvation Saved Carrie Good Memories Best Education

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.”

Ifs Thinking World Writing Children Littles Might Order Speak Deserve Sacred Power Of Words Nudge Incomprehension

Book:Arcadia

Source: Arcadia

“If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic.”

Ifs Sacred Train Skeptic

Author:Ann Druyan

“I have no religion,’ says Borneau, ‘but I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred.’ Why this privilege, this immunity?... A believer creates God in his own image; if he is ugly, his God will be morally ugly. Why should moral ugliness be respectable?”

Ifs Should Moral Sacred Privilege Ugly Believer Gods Will Ugliness Respectable Immunity

Book:The journal of Jules Renard

Source: The journal of Jules Renard

“The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching.”

Ifs Children Persons Hands Names Process Parent Numbers Situation Teaching Fool Calling Essentials Capacity Sacred Prison Cruelty Employee Consideration Cover Ups

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Okay," I said. "Just a normal afternoon and two normal people." She nodded. "And so...hypothetically, if these to people likes each other, what would it take to get the stupid guy to kiss the girl, huh?" "Oh..." I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows-slow, dumb, and bright red. "Um.”

People Ifs Said Two Guy Girl Felt Stupid Kissing Normal Red Okay Sacred Likes Dumb Afternoon Cows Apollo Sacred Cows Stupid Guy

Book:Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth

Source: Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth

“In the beginning was belief, foolish belief, and faith, empty faith, and illusion, the terrible illusion. ... We believed in God, had faith in man, and lived with the illusion that in each one of us is a sacred spark from the fire of the shekinah, that each one carried in his eyes and in his soul the sign of God. This was the source—if not the cause—of all our misfortune.”

Ifs Men Soul Eye Belief Causes Fire Source Terrible Illusion Empty Sacred Foolish His Eyes Misfortunes Sparks

Author:Elie Wiesel

“Its as if you think you'd never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined”

Ifs Thinking Reason Sacred Intertwined

Author:Moliere

“The Code of the Vampires decreed that anyone who violated the Sacred Law was condemned to death, the blood burning. Charles had refused to subject Allegra to the sentence. But Mimi was a different matter. Mimi walked out of the church, knowing that if she ever saw Jack again, she would have to kill him.”

Ifs Different Matter Law Church Knowing Saws Blood Subjects Sacred Sentences Vampire Burning Code Mimi

Author:Melissa de la Cruz

“Of all the creations of the Almighty, there is none more beautiful, none more inspiring than a lovely daughter of God who walks in virtue with an understanding of why she should do so, who honors and respects her body as a thing sacred and divine, who cultivates her mind and constantly enlarges the horizon of her understanding, who nurtures her spirit with everlasting truth. God will hold us accountable if we neglect His daughters. He has given us a great and compelling trust. May we be faithful to that trust.”

“Do I understand, sir, that you mean the Cause for which our heroes have died is not sacred?' If you were run over by a railroad train your death wouldn’t sanctify the railroad company, would it?' asked Rhett and his voice sounded as if he were humbly seeking information.”

Ifs Mean Running Causes Voice Company Information Hero Died Sacred Train Seeking Railroads Sanctify

Book:Gone With The Wind: American Literature

Source: Gone With The Wind: American Literature

“The Lord has blessed you with a testimony of the truth. You have felt His influence and witnessed His power. And if you continue to seek Him, He will continue to grant you sacred experiences. With these and other spiritual gifts, you will be able not only to change your own life for the better but also to bless your homes, wards or branches, communities, cities, states, and nations with your goodness.”

Ifs States Home Able Spiritual Nations Felt Community Cities Lord Influence Goodness Blessed Sacred Branches Grants Bless Testimony Spiritual Gifts

Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first advocate of learning, the first enemy of ignorance, the first to whisper in human ears the sacred word liberty, the creator of ambition, the author of modesty, of inquiry, of doubt, of investigation, of progress and of civilization.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“There's a lovely Hasidic story of a rabbi who always told his people that if they studied the Torah, it would put Scripture on their hearts. One of them asked, "Why on our hearts, and not in them?" The rabbi answered, "Only God can put Scripture inside. But reading sacred text can put it on your heart, and then when your hearts break, the holy words will fall inside.”

People Ifs Heart Stories Fall Reading Break Holy Sacred Scripture Lovely Heart Break Rabbi Torah Sacred Texts

Book:Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

“The music defied classification. If I had been writing a review of the show, I would have labeled it progressive, guitar-driven rock ’n’ roll. But the guitars made sounds guitars didn’t always make. Symphonic sounds. Sacred sounds. The music dug in so deep you didn’t hear it so much as feel it, reminding me of a dream I used to have when I was a kid, where I would be standing on a street corner, I would jump into the air, flap my arms, and soar up into the sky. That’s the only way I could describe the music. It was the sonic equivalent of flight.”

Source: How to Kill a Rock Star

“If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then it must somehow involve within itself a ceremonious generosity toward the wilderness of natural force and instinct. The farm must yield a place to the forest, not as a wood lot, or even as a necessary agricultural principle but as a sacred grove - a place where the Creation is let alone, to serve as instruction, example, refuge; a place for people to go, free of work and presumption, to let themselves alone. (pg. 125, The Body and the Earth)”

“Our entire society is based on discontent. People wanting more and more and more. Being constantly dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their décor, their clothes, everything – taking it for granted that that’s the whole point of life. Never to be satisfied. If you are perfectly happy with what you got, especially if what you got isn’t even all the spectacular then you’re dangerous. You’re breaking all the rules. You’re undermining the sacred economy. You’re challenging every assumption that society is built on.”

People Ifs Whole Home Body Challenges Economy Dangerous Clothes Built Sacred Satisfied Granted Assumption Spectacular Discontent Dissatisfied Undermining Wanting More

Author:Tana French

“I was always embarresed by the words 'sacred,' 'glorious,' and 'sacrifice' and the expression 'in vain.' We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stock yards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.”

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